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Ease; pleasure. [Obs.] Chaucer.

Shaped into one; tending to, or formative into, unity. [R.] Coleridge.

An alkaloid found in the Calabar bean, and the seed of Physostigma venenosum; physostigmine. It is used in ophthalmic surgery for its effect in contracting the pupil.

Sexless; asexual.

Of or pertaining to Anam, to southeastern Asia. -- n.

Of or pertaining to Aracan, a province of British Burmah. -- n. sing. & pl.

Of or pertaining to Aragon, in Spain, or to its inhabitants. -- n. sing. & pl.

The diocese of an archbishop.

Of or pertaining to Assam, a province of British India, or to its inhabitants. -- n. sing. & pl.

Of or pertaining to Bengal. -- n. sing. & pl. A native or natives of Bengal.

Pertaining to the city o -- n. sing. & pl.

To see; to look; to mind. [Obs.] Wyclif.

To ask or entreat with urgency; to supplicate; to implore. I beseech you, punish me not with your hard thoughts. Shak. But Eve . . . besought his peace. Milton.

One who beseeches.

Entreating urgently; imploring; as, a beseeching look. -- Be*seech"ing*ly, adv. -- Be*seech"ing*ness, n.

The act of beseeching or entreating earnestly. [R.] Goodwin.

To beseech. [Obs.] Chaucer.

ence: To be fit, suitable, or proper for, or worthy of; to become; to befit. A duty well beseeming the preachers. Clarendon. What form of speech or behavior beseemeth us, in our prayers to God Hocker.

Appearance; look; garb. [Obs.] I . . . did company these three in poor beseeming. Shak.

Fit; suitable; becoming. [Archaic] In beseemly order sitten there. Shenstone.